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Slide 1: Innovation as distributed, collaborative knowledge generation Peter B. Sloep Edumedia 2009: e-creativity and e-innovation May 4-5, 2009, Salzburg, Austria Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 2: Overview • the ‘open movement’ • modern variant of received view of open learning (Learning Network) • its relevance to open innovation (idSpace) Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 3: The ‘Open Movement’ • Open Standards • Open Source & Resources • Open Learning • Open Innovation Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 4: Open Standards • perhaps oldest member • about interoperability • creates a level playing field for vendors, contra monopolies, a moral, regulatory stance more competition, no vendor lock-in • but: also economic benefits for consumers, Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 5: Open Source • a moral stance • Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation • later on, also a pragmatic choice • make money through services, not code • maintain code jointly Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 6: Open Learning • started in the 1970s and 80s, OU, OUNL, ... • a moral stance: access to education for all • now also a pragmatic choice • catering for the knowledge economy’s needs • fighting the rising cost of education Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 7: How about Open Innovation? • 2001 Henry Chesbrough • Buy the IP you don’t want or cannot develop yourselves • So a pragmatic stance only ... • How about the moral aspect here? Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 8: My argument • There is also a moral stance to open innovation • It is worth pursuing • It can best be pursued through a networked approach • And I have a suggestion for how ... Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 9: Learning Networks • Learning Networks, new bid for open learning • addressing both moral & pragmatic stance • distributed: online networks of partially overlapping communities • collaborative: peers support each other • AHTCS: for community formation Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 10: Learning Networks (2) • using web 2.0 technologies • using any resource available, but thriving on open (educational) resources • using open source-like business model: make money through additional services Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 11: • by analogy: • open innovation should be able to profit from a similar networked approach developed networks art Networks for Open Innovation • distributed, making use of existing and newly • collaborating on advancing the state of the • AHTCS: for community formation Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 12: Networks for Open Innovation (2) • using existing open resources • making its resources widely and freely available (no patents on software) • business models, to be developed • in the pre-competitive phases only Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 13: idSpace • FP7 funded STREP, 2 years, ends early 2010 • develops tooling for distributed, collaborative product innovation • stores ideas as topic maps (open standard!) • uses a pluggable, portal approach Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 14: In conclusion • As in other instantiations of the open movement, there is a moral argument that demands new knowledge to flow freely • Chesbrough pointed to some benefits • As in the other instantiations, time will teach us there are more unanticipated benefits Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slide 15: The idSpace project is partially supported by the European Union under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D. This presentation does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of its content. web: www.idspace-project.org web: pbsloep.nl mail: peter.sloep <at> ou.nl Tuesday, May 5, 2009